My parents are in their mid-60s, and I think they have a lot of direct control over whether they make it to 90 or 100, maybe 110 but AFAIK there’s a lot of genetic factors after ~90. In practice they’re already healthy people doing most of the most important stuff, specifically lots of exercise, so there’s not a ton for me to intervene on there.
One of the main scenarios I’m planning for is just making sure that if there are early treatments available, I’ll be able to talk to them about it. I think it’s possible that there will be treatments available when they’re 75, which will seem early and weird, which would put them on an LEV track, that would not work if they waited until they were 85, or had an acute health crisis. So we talk about this stuff now, I talk about the supplements I take, the research I see, etc.
Functional life extension treatments in ten years is definitely an optimistic world. If it happens, though, I don’t want the people I care about to miss the bus.
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My parents are in their mid-60s, and I think they have a lot of direct control over whether they make it to 90 or 100, maybe 110 but AFAIK there’s a lot of genetic factors after ~90. In practice they’re already healthy people doing most of the most important stuff, specifically lots of exercise, so there’s not a ton for me to intervene on there.
One of the main scenarios I’m planning for is just making sure that if there are early treatments available, I’ll be able to talk to them about it. I think it’s possible that there will be treatments available when they’re 75, which will seem early and weird, which would put them on an LEV track, that would not work if they waited until they were 85, or had an acute health crisis. So we talk about this stuff now, I talk about the supplements I take, the research I see, etc.
Functional life extension treatments in ten years is definitely an optimistic world. If it happens, though, I don’t want the people I care about to miss the bus.